[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3240-3241]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  APPLAUDING THE MORAL MONDAY PROTESTS

  (Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, on February 8, more than 80,000 North 
Carolinians rallied outside the State capitol building in Raleigh to 
protest the extreme policies of North California Republican Governor 
Pat McCrory and the Republican-led legislature.
  North Carolina Republicans have cut education funding to the bone, 
denied a half-million people access to health care by refusing to 
expand Medicaid,

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and are trying to silence North Carolina citizens by making it harder 
to vote.
  Mr. Speaker, these policies are making life difficult, and North 
Carolinians have had enough. North Carolina Republican leaders must not 
continue to sacrifice the common good of millions to benefit an elite 
few.
  We need to increase funding for education and job training, expand 
health care access, and guarantee the right to vote.
  I applaud the Moral Monday protests and all those who support a 
better way to govern.

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